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I wrote an article some time ago in order to give you the most useful tips and tricks for my favorite php IDE, PhpStorm.
Well, sorry PhpStorm, you were my favorite IDE. Things changed. I love another one now.
Its name is Vim.
Are you confused? Are you yelling “why”? What happened between PhpStorm and me? Why a PHP developer would use this… old smelly thing called Vim?
I was happy with PhpStorm. »

When PHP 7 came up with strong types, I saw the light. I had the hope not to see anymore bugs and inconsistencies due to weak typing in PHP.
I remember reading some code and having no idea what could be the type of the variables I had in front of me. Can I use the return of this method as an int? A boolean? Will it create silent bugs and unexpected behaviors? »

Last update: 2019-01-31
When I search and read code about time and date problems developers have, I noticed that a lot of people still use the old PHP functions like date(), time() or strtotime().
What about using DateTime instead?
It’s time to introduce this powerful PHP object.
DateTime can do all the usual date and time operations you could ask for and even more. Using DateTime can save a lot of time when you have to do more complex operations on dates. »

PhpStorm is my favorite IDE for coding in PHP: pretty stable, you can do a lot with it. A shed load of stuff in fact. Even coding!
The guys from Jetbrains tried to integrate every useful tools for a web developer in one software and, I have to say, it is pretty well done!
You can configure easily a debugger, using a terminal, sending requests to your remote or local databases. »

Being a developer can be really tough: you have to create and maintain (sometimes complex) structures and in the same time you have to stick to shorter deadlines.
Some developers think that the main aim of their job is to produce code which works. I’d say it’s the easy part of our work: the other difficult part is to build applications you can scale easily without passing hours in refactoring. »